good evening, thank you for joining us commit is trey gowdyi and it is sunday night in america. every four years they tell us this is the most important election of our lifetime. usually it is hyperbole but sometimes it is simply logical in the sense it is the next election and therefore, the most important. but i will concede. this election cycle does feelspo disproportionatelyl. consequential. at a realossr crossroads. more people arre pe questioning democracy as a system of government. americans seem less interested in working things out and more interested in duking things out. so maybe 202t.4 is the most important election of our lifetime.efin regardless, it is definitely the next one. it is ten months away. joining us now are two old friends of the show, opinionm an washington times opinion editor and democratic strategists kevin wallin. charlie, you have tollu helvepe with this month. there are prominent republicans and conservatives who claim they will not suppor
most important election. i think a lot of it has to doio. with the fact that every four years, our government becomes so much more powerful, and also at the samee timtoe feels all that much less answerable to theerab people here that is where that rangs e comes from. it all culminated in donald trump. trum people feel like theye are getting forced back into tho old mold.he they don t want to go there appear they want to go with, you know, stick with the guy that is not from politics central casting. trey: all right, kevin, speaking of the old mole and hollywood central casting, i think you may not be old enough to remember ronald reagan but i do.us heth once gave us an 11th commandment about not attacking fellow republicans. kevin come i want you to listena to this and i want you to answer a question on the other side.i o every victor come i wouldd tell him i would disagree but support the ticket.re
two straight years, job creation seems to be slowing down. earnings for middle income americans fell some 7% in the past decade. and then there are investments. your i.r.a., your 401(k), your pensions. they re a second road to prosperity. that is complicated in this volatile market. for those of you looking for a safe harbor by investing in fixed income or parking money in the shelter of a bank, you re getting nothing. even our virtually nonexistent inflation is higher than what you re earning. you are being penalized for not taking risks. ironically, owning your home may be the one vehicle to personal wealth that shows signs of some brightness. home prices may have hit bottom and are finally bouncing back. if that s the case, then now is the best time to buy a home or refinance a loan. interest rates are at historic lows. but that s little consolation to scores of homeowners who have seen the value of their homes on average shrink by a quarter since the beginning of the rece